Yeah, he should edit his post. hence my reply in the upper section of this page
Wrong.
"Airborne transmission is generally thought to be the main way flu is transmitted in most populations," influenza expert and former director of the Influenza Specialist Group Dr Alan Hampson said.
The flu virus replicates in the cells that line our airway.
Mucus secretions containing the virus are released from our nose and mouth in the form of snot, saliva and airborne droplets."
The virus will make its "base of operation" in your respiratory track, be it your ear canals, throat, nose, which are all connected. It needs a moist environment to survive hence moisture from condensation due to warm air from inside your body meeting the colder air outside should be removed. It's the same reason you can get a runny nose from eating warm soup. Nothing to do with the body trying to help you at all, even an inanimate object produces condensation when temperatures differ enough, and even if it was your body producing the moisture to help it's irrelevant because viruses like the flu have evolved to survive and spread by successfully using their hosts to trigger mechanisms or use the immune systems' own reaction that will allow them to do so. Accumulation of moisture or water in your throat, nose, ear canals, are where the virus operates from.
The moisture is used as protective vessels to travel, and the virus causes you to sneeze to travel out of your body to infect others.
I'm not saying keep your nose dry like sandpaper, but when moisture forms to the point where you can feel it in your nose, do take the opportunity to dry it. Otherwise the virus gets in and eventually you'll swallow and it will make its way to the back of your throat.
www.theguardian.com
